Automatic dose-measuring bottle or vessel.



No. 820,576. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

A. W. HUTGHINS.

AUTOMATIC DOSE MEASURING BOTTLE OR VESSEL. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1905 M TNESSEE. /NVEN rag,

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFI TE.

ARTHUR W. HUTCHINS, OF PROVIDENCE, RH DE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO MEASURING APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

' Application filed June 30,1905. Serial No. 267,717-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. HUToHINs,

a citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Automatic Dose-Measuring. ottles or Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

In a 266,108, ed by'me une 20, 1905, in the United States Patent Oifice, is shown and described a novel bottle or vessel constructed and arranged to automatically measure and dispense llquid therefrom in predetermined quantities or doses.

My present invention also relates to bottles or vessels of the kind just referred to; and

- it consists in enlarging the upper portion of such liquid-container in a lateral or radial direction and providing. it interiorly with a depressed or recessed partition having an aperture therein in continuous open commumcation'with the neck and body ortions of the vessel and, further, having t e edge of said a erture-extending laterally to or beyond 516 line of the inner wall, thereby producing a curved or somewhat circuitous passage for the liquid, while at the same time forming a seal to revent outflow from the reservoir during t c act of pouring or disensin the measured portion of the liquid om the neck of the bottle. By reason of the enlarged upper portion of *theivessel, as

just stated, an -1ncreased space is .provided into which the contents flow while the premeasured dose is being dispensed, the vessel meanwhile being tilted a correspondingly less degree or extent from its normal or perpendicular position.

In the drawings herewith, Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view illustrating a bot-- tle or vessel embodying my present im rovements. taken on line a: a: of Fi 1 and Fig. 3 is a plan view, in reduced sca e, showing a slightlymodified form of the vessel.

I would state here that while the drawings represent a bottle provided with my improvement the latter may be employed equally as well in other forms of liquld-holding. vessels or Exckages-aa for example, jugs, cans, &c.

the bottle A, made, say, of glass, the

fipfiending ap lication, Serial No.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectiona view body a, may be cylindrical or have any othersuitable shape and having its upper end portion enlarged circumferentially, (see 0, the

latter materially increasing the normal mternal area at that point. The top a of the bottle is provided with a neck or nozzle 0/, adapted to receive a stop er s.

At the base of the necliand integralwith the top end a is formed interiorly a small substantially horizontal partition or dia-. phragm (1, having a recess or cavity 12 therein, the latter constituting the measuring member. The space above the artition is in direct communication with t e bottles neck and is separated from the main body' or res-.

ervoir portion (exce t as stated above) by the short circumscri ing wall ll. (See also ig. 2.) A

The member d extends outwardly to or be-. yond the inner wall of the normal body a of the bottle (see line 0, Fig. 1)-and into t e space formed by said enlargement of, thereby producing an edge or interposed weir d, sepa-, rating the upper and lower adj acentpassages e e, respectlvely.

In using my improved bottle or vessel A the latter, assumin it to be filled with the liquid m, while stil stoppered, is first inverted, thereby permitting some of the liquid to flow via passages e e into and fill the neck said dose or premeasured quantity of the li uid will flow from the cavity 0 and througli the neck a by avity.

While the bottle is in the ti ped position, its conten m are prevented 0111 entering the passa e e, owing to the presence of the interpose partition (1, whose outer ed e (73 extends to or beyond the normal wall 0 the 7 body part a. It may be unnecessary to add that when dispensing the charge the outer edge of the member d should lie uppermost and substantially level.

Of course the level of the contents m of 7 the bottle when normally or properly filled should not extend above the artition (1, thereby leaving a small space a etween the top a of the bottle and-said contents. This space, however, is filled with the liquid when the boo/gale is ti ped, as in pouring, so that practi fly the level of the contents is then even lower than the line 0. Obviously the last-named level will gradually recede correspondingly with the successive delivery of charges m from the bottle.

Fig. 3 represents a bottle in which the enlargement 11 extends only partly around its upper end.

claimas my invention 1. As a new and improved article of manufacture a bottle or vessel for holding liquids, the same having a dose-measuring partition or member located in the upper interior portion of the vessel contiguous to and communicating with the latters neck or dischargeoutlet, and havin an open aperture or passage for the flow o the liquid formed between the outer edgeof said partition and the'ad{a cent wall, the latter extending diametrica 1y beyond and formin a continuation of the normal wall of the vessels body.

2. A bottle or vessel provided with a discharge-outlet, and havin the upper portion of the body enlarged in a ateral dlrection beyond the vertical lane of its normal wall and provided .interior y with an integral dose,- measuring partition or member having its outer edge extending to or into said enlarged portion and forming an openpassage past said edge between the discharge-outlet and the main body of the bottle, saidpartition comletely separating the neck "or outlet portion horn the body or reservoir and preventing circulation of the liquid except through said open passage. 7

3. A bottle or vessel having its upper portion enlarged circumferentially to increaseits capacity, a nozzleor neck member integral therewith adapted to receive a suitable stoplarged adjacent the outer edge of said partition to form a continuously-open passage past said edge and between the nozzle and body portions of the vessel.

.45 per, an integral interior dose-measuring parsignedat Providence, Rhode Island, this I 29th day of June, 1905. I

ARTHUR W. HUTCHINS.

Witnessesi j GEO. H. REMINGTON,

- HENRY P, STONE 

